A Smashing Good Time

So the father is so overprotective that he doesn’t allow his daughter to date, or “do anything,” but when she comes home from a dance and confesses that not only did she lie about taking a boy to the dance, but she also hit another car and took off, his only response is “I told you so” and “Oh, well, things happen”? Nothing about making her face what she did and accept responsibility for her actions? Until the cops are involved, of course. Sorry, but this reads a little bit like “My Very Worst Dad.”

I don’t quite see why it was your dad’s fault that you can’t drive (“it all started with my dad’s overprotectiveness”).

Anyone else find that this story wandered all over the place? What did your sore feet and almost missing the boat have to do with anything?

Sorry OP, you had an unlucky end to the evening but otherwise…. meh. If that’s been your worst date so far, count your lucky stars.

@ Shalamar – agreed, the story did go off track; could have been a lot more concise.

First off, this story is really horribly written. Second thing is, I don’t get the whole damage thing. You stepped out of your car to assess the damage and did not realize the “really bad damage to their car” ?

And I agree, there is a lot of sidetracking going on in the story. It’s like reading the diary entry of a 16 year old.

While I do appreciate the I-was-the-cause-of-my-own-worst-date stories on this site, this one is barely even a date story. It’s mostly just an I’m-a-young-and-inexperienced-driver-who-caused-an-accident story.

More like Your Very Worst Accident. But it still sucks.

Yep, not a date story at all. The guy from the dance actually seemed relatively normal and nice. OP seems like a nice girl too, though with poor writing skills. Hmph.

…..ok.

You are actually lucky that your dad “sorted it out” and you weren’t charged with a misdemeanor (or felony, depending on what state you are in and how bad the damage was). To hit something and just drive away (hit and run) is against the law and you could have (should have?) been arrested.

Your dad is a douchcanoe, OP.

You’re pretty lucky you didn’t get a ticket for hit and run (or did you?) You probably shouldn’t be driving if you don’t know to stop or at least leave your insurance information at the scene of an accident… Then again, if your dad just shrugged it off too….

worst story teller ever

I had a friend growing up who had an overprotective dad, so that part of the story makes more sense to me. Sometimes you wind up doing really dumb things because you’re trying to go under the parental radar. OP probably really wanted to go to the dance with this guy but she didn’t want her dad knowing, so she felt that she was stuck driving even though she was inexperienced and driving a giant car in the city. I doubt she mentioned the part of the story where this guy she was dropping off was her date when her dad was questioning her about the accident. But I bet it all came out when they had to go down there!

And honestly, even if I’d had a fun time on the date, hitting a parked car when I was trying to make a graceful exit and then having to deal with the cops the next day would almost definitely put a damper on the whole thing. Acceptable MVWD to me.

Ugh, anyone who is willing to just hit someone’s car and leave is terrible. Some of us can’t afford fixing our car/super high insurance rates and it isn’t fair that they should have to drive around with damage just because you’re a bad driver. That’s mean.

Hilgar are you the OP??

I hope the girl got fined otherwise she’ll never learn her lesson, and who knows, she may even hit a person next time and think it’s ok to leave then as well!
Definitely an embarrassing date, but she should’ve never left without reporting the damage done.

@Hilgar, what you said made perfect sense to me, and if the OP had described that — trying to avoid confronting her dad about dating, ended up nervously driving the car at night, and hit another car — all in the succinct paragraph as you did, we all would have less to gripe about.

I also can’t quite fathom her dad’s response. “He asked all about” the crash, but what did he say? Did he ask you how bad the damage was? (It sounded like you were sobbing into your sweetheart’s arms that you didn’t even see the result of the crash, OP). Did he ask you if you took any pictures? Did you ask you if you left a note? Called insurance? I also don’t understand, OP, why you didn’t ask yourself these questions. I doubt either of you are douchebags or mean, but these post-accident actions should be common sense.

And OP, next time, try to only provide relevant information when telling a story. The “overprotective dad” thing can be shortened like how Hilgar did it. The rest:

Someone else asked you out first and you turned him down: I was expecting this guy to show up later and cause you trouble, but he didn’t…

Traffic in the city is usually bad: I expected your accident to happen there, but you noted that there was no traffic and you were fine…

Your friend asked you to pick her up: I expected your friend acting an obnoxious third wheel, or maybe unexpectedly brought someone else that was troublesome, but none of the above happened…

More of the same follows with “we almost missed the boat”, “it’s cold outside”, “my feet hurt”, “I walked to the car and drove barefoot”, “we made out”.

I’m not saying I’m the best story teller, but keep these in mind, OP, and you won’t face this much bombardment from the commentators.

It’s what’s called a “hit and run”, and you’re lucky you weren’t charged. My bff merely grazed a car in a parking lot and ended up losing her license for six months.

Oh yeah, and 90% of the story wasn’t relevant at all to the punchline, which was you crashing your car. Sigh… I’m gonna suggest yet again a moratorium on teenager stories unless they’re actually really bad.

While this sounds like a slightly traumatic experience (though you seem to have had no real consequences other than embarrassment), this story was painful to read. OP, you should work on your storytelling/writing skills.

Maybe the “worst date” part is that the guy she went out with convinced her to commit a crime by leaving the scene of an accident, and then ratted her out to the police? That sounds like a pretty bad date to me.

“We reserve the right to publish your story at our own discretion and we also reserve the right to use and modify submissions for clarity and grammar.” ~ from the submit section.

This site has been up for a while, so I’m wondering if the admins have gotten too busy to edit. I can understand that, but it didn’t make reading this very worst car accident any easier.

She didn’t really hit and run.. sounds like the expectation is that if the owners had a problem, the date would contact OP, which he did.

The switching between past and present tense in this story was driving me insane. This story sounds like it was written by a twelve year old. If the OP’s driving and/or judgement is anything like her writing, I’m not surprised that the dad is overprotective.

Tl; dr I drove to prom, crashed into a car, now I’m embarrressed

@lauren – If she and the date were so willing to cooperate, why did the police get involved?

Another whiny teenager story. Yes, OP, you should be ashamed for leaving the scene of an accident you caused without leaving a note on the car with your contact info. And yes, editors, you should stop publishing lame stories from teenagers.

I agree with Jeff.

So basically this story is about how you are a shitty driver and committed a crime by hitting a car and driving off without notifying the owner (or at least leaving a note). Teenagers are such retards. This story is written terribly, I can’t believe I wasted my time reading this garbage.

the cheese has it all

Here here Dr.Cheese. I’m with you on this one!

Oh my god. Are you sure you’re in high school? I wrote better stories than this when I was 9.
On the other hand, I kind of remember what it was like being in high school. I was really stupid, too. And I got into a car crash once. It was terrifying. But really…the writing here made my head hurt. Kids just aren’t learning these days.

Umm, quick question…you call the guy your sweetheart…but you still had to ask him out. If you’re using said term, wouldn’t the fact of you two going together just be assumed. Is there some secret high school code about not taking sweethearts to prom? Is sweetheart the new term for crush? Is this some public school thing that I never learned about being homeschooled?

And that’s why you don’t drive barefoot.